Blog v Wiki

In today's digital world it has become a part of our life to share our stories and experiences online. The availability and advance in new media technology tools such as blogs and wikis have made it possible for anyone to share anything online. 

Blogs and wikis are both similar and different. Some similarities between the two are that both are used for collaborating online. Both of these tools allows users to communicate with other people and share their ideas and experiences. What makes them different is that blogs are more of  one person writing them and others commenting and replying to someone's post. Blog is your own personal diary in a way where you can share anything you feel like with everyone. Whereas wikis are more of a collaborative tool where more than one person can add content to the same page and you sort of work in groups to achieve something. Wikis because of their flexibility also allows the user to create multiple pages and link pages within the wikis to different sources. Wiki are also more secure and used in workplaces a lot to share and collaborate between employers. The article "How to Use Wikis For Business" lists all the ways the companies can take advantage of wikis. 

Now anyone can start with blogs of wikis withe the help of sites such as Blogger and WordPress makes it easy for people to get started with blogging and it gives users a friendly way to design and customize the blogs to their liking. There are sites such as Wikispaces and Wikidot also available for you to get started with wikis for free.

From my personal experience of working at the community college I have seen professors in classes use these tools for the students to collaborate and learn. From seeing students work on wikis in ESL classes to students using blogs to share their work in art class. 

Sources: How To Use Wikis For Business
              Wikipedia: No longer the Wild West?

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